ORIGINAL: NM2K
Well, my point was that silicon and silicone are two completely different things. I'm not a chemist, but seeing something spelled wrong all of the time is irritating - even to someone like me.
Ed Cregger
For sure. I wasn't playing "correct Ed", but rather "actually, here's the scoop" and to point out how radically different compounds can be from the elements that make them up, and why we use silicone fuel tubing rather than the other stuff.
Here's my pet peeve, it is more common by the day and is showing up far too frequently in print media now.
"Lose" and "loose" !!!!!!!
As in: If I
lose my button, my pants will come
loose. Lose = verb, loose = adjective.
I recall an RCM B&W print ad that ran for a while a few years back with the headline "Don't loose your plane in the sun again" or something like that. Really stood out to me at the time.
MJD